Stories from Pitt Global
Learn more about the global experiences happening at Pitt and the stories that make Pitt Global a unique place to learn, work, and explore the world.
The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) was happy to welcome Emicida to campus last week. Throughout the week, the Brazilian rapper, writer, entrepreneur, and contemporary thinker held a series of pop-up course sessions focusing on Brazilian...
Pitt has been named a top Fulbright-producing school nine times since 2013, and although recipients can work in over 160 countries, Germany is one of the most popular choices.
Each year, the Frederick Honors College produces a group of Fulbright...
On a rainy Wednesday afternoon in Schenley Plaza, the loud echoes of drums and intertribal song echoed around Oakland from the “mini powwow” taking place as a part of the third annual Indigenous Cultural Festival.
Pitt’s Indigenous Cultural Festival...
Helping scholars from troubled places around the world — particularly Afghans before the Taliban takeover and Ukrainians during the current war — has been “challenging, but certainly the most rewarding work I have ever done,” says Jennifer Brick...
When former Oakmont teacher Marc Fogel was arrested three years ago in Russia, the government there said it was because the longtime teacher at the Anglo-American School of Moscow possessed less than an ounce of medical marijuana.
But on Saturday,...
The family of Marc Fogel attended a panel discussion about hostage diplomacy at the University of Pittsburgh on Saturday. Fogel has been imprisoned in Russia since 2021. The panel was hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian, East...
A trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya helps explain the history of plant farming in equatorial Eastern Africa, a region long thought to be important for early farming but where scant evidence from actual physical crops has been...
Decades of her life, including her family’s background and early experiences at Pitt, have shaped her career, Kati Csoman, director of the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs, told Staff Council’s Coffee and Conversation event on...
Kati Von Lehman has been working in higher education since she became a Resident Assistant back in 1998. Over the years, she has worked for several different institutions and in different areas, but her favorite school has been the University of...
Pitt women’s basketball alumna Marcedes Walker doesn’t know how she’ll feel when she first steps onto the Olympic 3x3 courts in Paris.
“Oh, that goes beyond nerves,” Walker said. “It still hasn’t hit me yet.”
When Walker takes the floor for Team...
Jonathan Chitiyo, associate professor of education at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford and Center for African Studies faculty affiliate, has published a new book about teaching children with disabilities in Africa.
Chitiyo, who is from...
This technically won’t be the first Olympic Games for Christie-Lee Coad, a Thomas Jefferson High School product who earned her master’s degree in sports medicine at Pitt.
Now the co-head athletic trainer for USA Track & Field, Coad traveled to...